Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

10.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

21.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

33.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman